Works
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Hot Brine
Read more: Hot BrineHot Brine is an ongoing speculative research into so-called sustainable technologies such as using geothermal-energy for producing both carbon neutral electricity and lithium hydroxide, or injecting carbonated water into underground basalt for permanent carbon sequestration. We are interested in the way that imaginaries for these technologies are visualised, materialised and circulated. During a summer residency…
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Capitalithothèque
Read more: CapitalithothèqueThis wiki explains a specific type of perfora-lithic anti-capitalist practice. The Capitalithothèque is a collection of stones which are sourced from capital-buildings. It contains descriptions of the stones, the method of harvesting and the buildings from which the Capitalithos were sourced.. By bringing together texts and images of this example, this wiki is also an…
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Sanary Parade
Read more: Sanary ParadeSanary parade is an installation with photo-collages that are based on unsold photographs that were taken in the 60s by a street photographer who worked in Sanary-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast in France. The photographs are superimposed and stitched together on shared landmarks that feature in the background; the harbour, the theater square, the city…
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Social moiré
Read more: Social moiré‘Social Moiré’ consists of a series of graphic collage experiments based on a dozen of found footage glass negatives: Professional photos of classes at a boys’ school. Origin, place and date are unknown, but judging by the clothes they were made somewhere in the forties. The boys are lined up in formation, flanked by teachers…
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Modular Hangout
Read more: Modular HangoutMobile installation, each module 240 x 120 x 200, 2011 The work consists of a modular construction serving as a mobile hangout place for youngsters in Overpelt. The wooden structures are set on wheels and can be moved around the city. They can be put together in such a way that they create a stage,…
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Goed jaar / Slecht jaar
Read more: Goed jaar / Slecht jaarGood year / bad year Production Martine Nederend and Femke Snelting, photo’s Otto Snoek, commisioned by CBK Rotterdam en Het Nieuwe Huren, 2006 Good year / bad year is a diary work for one person. During exactly one year, he or she notes daily her best and worst moment of that day, and by doing…
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Eco Loop
Read more: Eco Loopperformance and 3 channel video installation, 2004 Eco loop started as a performance, on the occasion of the PING festival in Mallorca. I collected litter along the heavily polluted road between Andratx and S’Arraco. Cleaned everything meticulously and put it back exactly where I found it.
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Drapeau uni-communautaire Vlag
Read more: Drapeau uni-communautaire VlagProduction: PleinOPENair and Constant, Brussels, 2004 The logo hybridises lion and rooster, icons of the Dutch- and French speaking communities in Belgium. The flag was made as a hommage to the inter-communal city of Brussels; a city where cultures meet, swap, join and evolve.
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Kuratorische Ergänzung
Read more: Kuratorische ErgänzungIntervention, Generali foundation, Vienna, 2002 A critical intervention on the exhibition Violence is at the margin of all things curated by Andreas Siekmann and Alice Creischer.
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Twin picts
Read more: Twin pictswith Robin van’t Haar, Performance, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, 2001 While attending a concert, actors play the role of members of an audience attending a concert. They follow instructions given to them by the artists, by means of cue cards which are projected on the walls of the concert hall.
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Vrijwillig verblijf
Read more: Vrijwillig verblijfVoluntary stay Multi media installation, CBK, Rotterdam, 1998 Memories of my parental home and curiosity for the construction of personal identity formed the startingpoint for a layered and spatially collaged exhibition and visual research project. As part of this project I worked for two years under the pseudonym Peter Soneta; after the cheap and popular…
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Taalpolitie / The Language Police
Read more: Taalpolitie / The Language PoliceContribution to groupshow: Satelite of love, Witte de With, 2006, and workshop collaboration with Grafisch Lyceum, Rotterdam The Language Police is a project conceived by Peter Westenberg for Satellite of Love. The format is a vlog (video weblog) about the word “allochtoon” (used in Dutch to mean “non-Dutch”). In this weblog, videos are collected…